Patience Kamau
Chair, 25th anniversary committee
Patience is a peacebuilder-conservationist who sees her role as a conciliatory one between humans and our environment’s complex ecosystems. She recieved both her BA '02 and MA '17 degrees from EMU, and began working at CJP in 2015.
Alena Yoder
Cohort Projects Coordinator
After growing up in Elkhart, Indiana, and Nairobi, Kenya, Alena was attracted to the international ethos that she found in the EMU community. She chose to attend EMU for her BA '16, and began working at CJP in 2016.
CJP alumna leads Charlottesville restorative justice program Erin Campbell MA ‘22 (conflict transformation) is using the skills she acquired from EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) to heal harms ... read more about Healing harm
Eastern Mennonite University awarded 366 total degrees (with some students earning more than one degree) at its 106th annual Commencement on Sunday, May 5, 2024. The total included 207 undergraduate ... read more about EMU’s 106th Commencement celebrates 357 graduates
$1.54M Weaver bequest for CJP among largest single gifts in EMU history Samuel and Helen Weaver lived to serve others. They gave generously of their time to the churches they ... read more about ‘A remarkable and beautiful legacy’
After her first two semesters at EMU, Maggie Garber McClary, who was then undecided in her major, had an idea for a program that would combine the two areas she ... read more about Senior Maggie Garber McClary set to become first music and peacebuilding grad
In a stirring display of solidarity, a group of about 200 protesters gathered outside City Hall in Harrisonburg, Virginia, on Tuesday afternoon calling for an end to the violence in ... read more about Students, faculty, staff join voices for peace in Gaza
As the 2024 presidential election fast approaches and the campaign signs and TV ads begin their blitzes, it may seem the nation is more divided than ever. And, for faith ... read more about Shalom Academy builds on legacy of School for Leadership Training